Belvosia diniamartinezae Fleming & Woodley, 2023

Fleming, AJ, Woodley, Norman, Smith, M. Alex, Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel H, 2023, Revision of Belvosia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Tachinidae) and 33 new species from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica with a key to known North and Mesoamerican species, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 103667-103667 : 103667

Belvosia diniamartinezae Fleming & Woodley sp. nov.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0003654 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Lucia Rios; individualID: DHJPAR0003654; individualCount: 1; sex: Male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: HCIC758-05, 00-SRNP-2670, BOLD:AAA1520; occurrenceID: 3428C3F5-63F4-5603-90D4-2DE37E6E9CF8; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia diniamartinezae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: diniamartinezae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2023; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector El Hacha ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Estacion Los Almendros ; verbatimElevation: 290; verbatimLatitude: 11.0323; verbatimLongitude: -85.5278; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 11.0323; decimalLongitude: -85.5278; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larvae of the Sphingidae , Enyo ocypete; verbatimEventDate: 10-Jul-2000; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0003648 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & Lucia Rios; individualID: DHJPAR0003648; individualCount: 1; sex: Female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: HCIC752-05, 00-SRNP-2624, BOLD:AAA1520; occurrenceID: 34EDD49A-7843-56A6-9918-DA6E54D163D7; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia diniamartinezae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: diniamartinezae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2023; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector El Hacha ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Estacion Los Almendros ; verbatimElevation: 290; verbatimLatitude: 11.0323; verbatimLongitude: -85.5278; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 11.0323; decimalLongitude: -85.5278; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larvae of the Sphingidae , Enyo ocypete; verbatimEventDate: 14-Jul-2000; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceDetails: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu; catalogNumber: DHJPAR0003671 ; recordedBy: D.H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs & gusaneros; individualID: DHJPAR0003671; individualCount: 1; sex: Male; lifeStage: adult; preparations: pinned; otherCatalogNumbers: ASBE014-06, 88-SRNP-134, BOLD:AAA1520; occurrenceID: 17834835-29BF-58BF-9DB2-BE3C627AF4E6; Taxon: scientificName: Belvosia diniamartinezae; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Diptera ; family: Tachinidae ; genus: Belvosia ; specificEpithet: diniamartinezae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fleming & Woodley, 2023; Location : continent: Central America ; country: Costa Rica; countryCode: CR; stateProvince: Guanacaste; county: Sector Santa Rosa ; locality: Area de Conservacion Guanacaste ; verbatimLocality: Bosque Humedo ; verbatimElevation: 290; verbatimLatitude: 10.8514; verbatimLongitude: -85.608; verbatimCoordinateSystem: Decimal ; decimalLatitude: 10.8514; decimalLongitude: -85.608; Identification : identifiedBy: AJ Fleming; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: Reared from the larvae of the Sphingidae , Enyo ocypete; verbatimEventDate: 06-Jul-1988; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: CNC; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: Pinned Specimen

Description

Male (Fig. 28), length: 13-14mm. Head: head slightly wider than thorax; vertex 1/3 head width; gena 1/4 of head height, 2/5 of eye height. Fronto-orbital plate ranging dull silver to pale gold, with two distinct rows of frontal setae, densely popuplated with black hair-like setulae intermingled, a few dark colored setulae extending below lowest frontal seta; ocellar setae absent, at most several hair-like setulae present on ocellar triangle; row of 1-3 short strong setae directly anterior to post-ocular row; orbital setae absent. Parafacial light yellow in ground color, densely covered in silver tomentum making the entire surface reflective and brilliant appearance; setulose along parafacial outside facial ridge; facial ridge setose along 3/4 of its length, with numerous black hair-like setulae emerging along outer edge; gena covered in strong black setulae. Antenna, pedicel black, concolorous with postpedicel; postpedicel black, 4X as long as pedicel; arista bare gradually tapering to a point at tip. Palps, yellow-orange throughout and densely covered in short black setulae; slender and near equilateral, only slightly curved at apex but not clubbed, tapering to a slight point apically, devoid of setulae basally. Thorax: black ground color, with light gray tomentum throughout presuturally, thinning centrally postsuturally, and transitioning to brown-bronze laterally when viewed from a caudal angle; scutellum appearing dark brown-black to the naked eye, under microscope glabrous adjacent to scutum, abruptly transitioning to dense bronze tomentum which becomes apparent when view on an oblique caudal angle; scutum with four dorsal vittae, one outer pair, one inner pair broken at suture; lateral surface of thorax densely covered in long hair-like setulae, these setulae all black; chaetotaxy: 3-4 strong setae on postpronotum arranged in a line, acrostichal setae 3:3-5; dorsocentral setae 3-4:4; intra-alar setae 3:3; supra-alar setae 2:3; 4-5 katepisternal setae; scutellum, with 5-6 pairs of long flat marginal setae of subequal length; apical setae absent; 1 complete row of scutellar discal setae just posterior to marginal setae. Wing: strongly infuscate, slightly darkened but not orange at wing base, basicosta black with slight accent of orange along caudal edge; both upper and lower calypters also infuscate concolorous with remainder of wing; wing vein R4+5 setose, bearing only 2-3 setulae at base; halteres orange stalk with dark black/brown capitulum. Legs: black overall, covered in shimmering bronze tomentum, coxa on midleg and hindleg covered in black setulae; tarsal claws yellow-orange with black tips, and orange pulvilli subequal to length of tarsal claws; anterodorsal row of setae on hind tibia irregularly sized not fringelike. Abdomen: large, flattened globose, with black ground color, brown lateroventrally on ST1+2-T4; bronze to gold tomentosity along anterior 5% of T3 almost not visibly so, only when viewed from a very strong caudal angle, gold tomentum along anterior 40-50% of surface of T4 becoming more apparent under different angles, bisected medially by an area devoid of tomentum, densely gold tomentose throughout T5 not reaching to hind margin of tergite, black along caudal 10% of tergite, where it is devoid of gold; "sex patch" present on ventral surfaces of T3-T5 which are densely hirsute, but lacking any definitive shape or form; one pair of median marginal setae present on ST1+2 and T3, and complete rows of setae on T4 and T5; T5 devoid of any setulae in the area of gold tomentosity.

Male terminalia (Fig. 29): sternite 5 with a deeply excavated median cleft along posterior edge, roughly Y-shaped, however shoulders lack definition making almost V-shaped, margins covered in dense tomentum; posterior lobes rounded apically, densely covered in multiple long, fine hair-like setulae. Anterior plate of sternite 5 1/2 length of posterior lobes; unsclerotized "window" on anterior plate of sternite 5 rectangular, nearly transparent directly basal to posterior lobes. Cerci in posterior view, overall triangular, slightly longer than surstyli; blunted triangular at apex, medially fused, separating only along anterior 1/3 of their length. Cerci in lateral view, with a strong anterior curve on apex, giving it a pinched- slightly clubbed appearance; densely setose along almost its length, only bare at apex. Surstylus in lateral view, equilateral along its length straight, only slightly curved digitiform; surstylus appearing to be separate and not fused with epandrium; when viewed posteriorly surstyli straight, not convergent. Pregonite broad and well developed, apically squared off, blunt, with a spars margin of 3-5 setulae. Postgonite, slightly narrowed, 1/3 as wide as pregonite, curved at apex, short and scythelike. Distiphallus broadly cone-shaped with a pronounced flare, with a slender median longitudinal sclerotized reinforcement on its posterior surface not reaching apex and a broad, anterolateral, sclerotized acrophallus, thickened apically appearing clubbed, ~1.8X as long as basiphallus.

Female (Fig. 30) length: 13-15mm, overall morphology as in male differing in the following traits: Head: fronto-orbital plate dull gray, sometimes appearing devoid of tomentum, bearing 3-4 pairs of proclinate orbital setae in addition to single pair of reclinate orbital seta; postpedicel 2-3X as long as pedicel; gena 1/4 head height, and 1/3 of eye height. Thorax: chaetotaxy as in males. Abdomen: no apparent sex patch present, remainder as in the males differing only in terminalia, overall abdomen not as hirsute as in males, particularly apparent on the underside.

Diagnosis

Belvosia diniamartinezae sp. n. can be distinguished from all other Belvosia by the following combination of traits: gena with black setae, male fronto-orbital plate with traces of gold, males with 1-2 small setulae directly anterior to postocular row, 3-5 in females, wings with black basicosta, base of scutum with a regular row of strong of marginal setae, abdomen T3 with traces of gold tomentum directly adjacent to ST1+2.

Etymology

Belvosia diniamartinezae sp. n, is named in honor of Sra. Dinia Martinez in recognition of her decades of being part of the Parataxonomist Program of Area de Conservación Guanacaste (http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr) in northwestern Costa Rica ( Janzen and Hallwachs 2011). Interim species-specific name included in previously circulating databases and publications, Belvosia Woodley04B.

Distribution

Costa Rica, ACG (Provinces of Alajuela and Guanacaste), 7-675 m elevation.

Ecology

Belvosia diniamartinezae sp. n. has been reared 107 times from three species of Lepidoptera in the family Sphingidae , Enyo lugubris (Linnaeus, 1771) (N=3), Enyo ocypete (Linnaeus, 1758) (N=99), Unzela japix (Cramer, 1776) (N=6), in rain forest, dry forest, and dry-rain lowland intergrade.